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OVERPRAISE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overpraise ... he / she / it overpraises
Past simple: overpraised
-ing form: overpraising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "overpraise" is one way to...):
exaggerate; overdo (do something to an excessive degree)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something